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Recent guidance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is designed to help emergency managers plan for disaster response and recovery while adhering to public health guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
A cloud-based electronic hand hygiene monitoring network revealed what humans could not observe—hand hygiene compliance rates were between 50% and 70%, much lower than staff observers had witnessed at various points in time.
On June 15 at noon ET, the editors of four major leadership nursing journals will inform aspiring authors about what it takes to get published.
The latest report from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) on the future of the nursing profession recommends making permanent all state and federal policy changes that expanded nurses’ scope of practice and made their services reimbursable during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week emphasized that its new masking recommendations for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 do not apply to health care settings.
AONL and the American Hospital Association (AHA) last week joined with the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and other health care organizations in calling for systemwide actions to share clinical and operational lessons learned in the pandemic to better implement crisis standards of care (CSC).
The American Hospital Association (AHA) supports adding to future versions of the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability to capture standardized data on social determinants of health
The COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate impact on Black Americans, Native American tribes and tribal populations, Latino Americans and other communities of color
Applications are now open for the Foster G. McGaw Prize, which recognizes health care delivery organizations engaged in innovative partnerships to improve community health
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an interim final rule requiring long-term care facilities in the Medicare and Medicaid programs